Citizens and local authorities in Imielin have created a united front to oppose destructive coal mining in their green town. Imielin is different from what most Poles understand...
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The European Parliament’s call for an extra EUR 4.8 billion for a Just Energy Transition Fund to support local communities in coal-heavy regions across Europe away from fossil...
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The Czech RE:START programme is a unique attempt by a government in central and eastern Europe to help coal regions develop in alternative ways. The town of Most...
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A former mining region struggling to recover is threatened by the opening of new mines. A significant part of Borsod, the coal-rich part of BAZ county in northeast...
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As the largest underground mine in Bulgaria closes this year in Bobov Dol, the community worries about its future. Georgi Terziski is clipping bunches of grapes from the...
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The road to a coal free EU may soon wind an unexpected detour through central Europe. At an early November meeting of the European Commission’s Coal Regions in...
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Slovakia will phase out subsidies for coal mines supplying one of the country’s most polluting power plants, Novaky (266 MW), in the region of Upper Nitra, as of...
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Mayors in Upper Nitra warn that a coal phaseout in the region is inevitable and are already preparing alternatives. If ever travellers reach Prievidza, the administrative centre of...
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A group of social entrepreneurs are breathing new life into a former mining community in Romania. It was all grey. Grey hills, grey houses, grey forest. Grey silhouettes...
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Even before the excavation I said, ‘You’ll see what will happen with the water and the trees. Everything will dry out.’ But hardly anyone believed me. As the...
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